I don't really have a favorite director at the moment. But I do love the following (and not in any order):
*Steven Spielberg (favorite film: Jaws)
*George A. Romero (favorite film: Night of the Living Dead(1968)
*John Carpenter (favorite film: Big Trouble in Little China)
*Joe Dante (favorite film: Gremlins)
*Alfred Hitchcock (favorite film: The Trouble With Harry)
*Sergio Leone (favorite film: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
*Mel Brooks (favorite film: Spaceballs)
*Clint Eastwood (favorite film: Unforgiven)
*Jacques Tourneur (favorite film: The Night of the Demon)
*Quentin Tarentino (favorite film: Reservoir Dogs)
*Martin Scorsese (favorite film: Gangs of New York)
10 pages, 182 posts and not one Gus Van Sant mention? That's a little disappointing!
My Own Private Idaho (1991) was definitely his best work and one of the greatest films ever imo. Brilliantly acted and directed, with fine use of colour, recurring motifs and bold credits. Idaho possesses a rare, dream like quality.
Van Sant is a director with the capability of crafting both deeply unconventional independent films and mainstream crowd-pleasers.
I'm also a huge fan of Rob Reiner, Peter Weir, Sidney Lumet and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Adonis stumbles out of the Viper Room into the darkened night.
He cannot feel his feet below, is quickly losing sight.
As his brother cradles him into his arms and lowers him to the ground
he looks into his dying eyes and hears his final sounds .. "I'm gonna die, dude."
How could this happen to me? I'm the model of clean living. Dead at twenty-three.
For me, it's a three-way tie between Stanley Kubrick, M. Night Shyamalan, David Lynch.
Kubrick is the absolute best, though, in my opinion. The other two are simply favorites.
Hayao Miyazaki used to be a favorite - and I still do believe he has one of the most creative minds out there today. But even though I have seen a few of his films in the past, I've only seen two of them more than once or recently: Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. And while Princess Mononoke is a great film, it didn't impact me quite as much as Spirited Away did. I still love the guy, though.
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TSAI MING-LIANG because he captures my loneliness, my absurdity, our universal yearning for one another, and the gentle bouts of quietus in my day to day existence. He's also the one, truly non-pretentious figure of Taiwanese New Wave.
i'll check out anything at all by peter greenaway, tsui hark, nagisa oshima, brian de palma, shohei imamura, werner herzog, robert altman, buster keaton, powell & presburger, and tod browning. not that they're all equally consistent but each of those directors has at least 2 movies that i enjoy enough that i'll give anything else they make/made a chance.
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a smaller ant seemingly made out of light inside the ant's shadow floating above both
I can't think of a favourite living one, actually, but for dead ones, I'd go for Bily Wilder, Elia Kazan, and Micheal Powell.
__________________ You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never. (The Red Shoes, 1948)
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